New Comics Community Launched: BuzziNews Portal Announces an International Comics Competition with Prizes Valued at $23,000

 

The new portal will illustrate reality from a new perspective, giving a new text-free look to the world of internet journalism through comics and caricature.  

 

Hod Hasharon. Israel, Nov. 7 2007. BuzziNews, a new and unique online comics community portal will illustrate world, business, sports and entertainment current events text-free through comics and caricatures. The online portal is launching its activity with an international illustration competition awarding prizes valued at $23,000.

 

The BuzziNews global comics community portal places the illustrations in center stage. The illustrations will portray current events and situations from the illustrator’s personal perspective.

                                                                                               

The first BuzziNews Awards Comics Competition is open to professional and amateur illustrators worldwide. Awards and prizes will be presented to winners of the contest in the four BuzziNews illustration categories: World, Business, Sports and Entertainment. Winners will be chosen by a public online vote as well as by a panel of judges, pre-chosen from among the surfing public.

 

The Comics Competition will begin on  Nov. 8th 2007. Online voting will open on December 1^st 2007  on the BuzziNews website. Winners of the comics competition will be declared on January 21^st 2008. For more information, visit the BuzziNews Awards Comics Competition website at www.buzzionline.net.

 

To compete in the “World” category, illustrators will draw their “local” world. In the “Business” category illustrators will unleash their imagination trying to imagine the next start-up company to be bought by Google or eBay. The theme in the “Sports” category is the Beijing Olympics 2008: illustrators are asked to describe future Olympic sports. In the “Entertainment” category comics artists and illustrators are to draw a caricature of the next celebrity/star.

 

Rami Naori, Co-Founder of BuzziNews: “The portal was conceived in the aspiration to bring forth a new perspective and a new look to the world of internet journalism. My wife, Haya-Ayelet, and myself labored with the idea of this portal for over three years before its birth. The notion that inspired us was that it is possible to portray current events from a positive standpoint free of malevolence, to diminish evil, decrease conflicts and power struggles and convey messages in a language that’s truly universal”.

 

Naori adds, “I hope that many illustrators will join the competition and find a home in the BuzziNews illustrators’ community portal. This is a new approach that will allow illustrators, comics artists and amateurs to earn money, and we hope they will make a lot of it from future earnings of the portal”.

 

About BuzziNews

The vision of The BuzziNews comics community portal is to provide a different perspective on world, business, sports and entertainment reality, without conflict, power struggles and malevolence, in a universal language understandable by all. The portal positions illustrators as partners and they stand to gain from future earnings. The BuzziNews Portal was founded by Rami Naori and his wife Haya-Ayelet who passed away several months before the site’s launch, leaving an unwritten legacy to continue with BuzziNews – their joint project. BuzziNews allows parents and children to enjoy the site, which filters out pornography, incitement to violence and crime, racism, and other content that may offend the public.

www.buzzinews.com

BRAILA COUNTY COUNCIL / THE COUNTY CENTER FOR PRESERVATION AND PROMOTION OF TRADITIONAL CULTURE BRAILA

 

 BRAILA INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST 2nd EDITION 2007

 

REGULATION

Contest: open to all cartoonists

Theme:  A) Braila- a multi-ethnic province (in Braila’s region cohabit beside Romanians the following ethnic communities: Bulgarians, Greeks, Italians, Jews, Lipovenians, Roms, Tatars and Turks)

               B) Free

Entries: max. 5.

The works should be sent by classic mail or by e-mail (A4, A3, 300 dpi, Jpeg) and must be accompanied by the author’s biography.
Size: A4 (210 x 297 mm) – A3 (297 x 420 mm)
Technique: free
Deadline: November 20^th, 2007
Prizes:

Great Prize –  1000 €  1500 €;

First Prize – 800 €  1000 €;

Second Prize – 500 €  800 €;

Third Prize – 300 €  500 €;

3 Special Prizes –  200 €  3 x 300 € (each)

Members of jury:

Tudor Octavian – art critic

Mihai Stanescu – cartoonist

Leonte Nastase – cartoonist

Costel Patrascan – cartoonist

Exhibition: December 8^th, 2007

Catalogue: each selected artist will receive a copy

Remark: the works will not be returned, they will remain the property of The County Center for Preservation and Promotion of Traditional Culture Braila

The works should be sent to:

The County Center for Preservation and Promotion of Traditional Culture Braila

1)         Piata Traian 2

810153

Braila

Romania

 

2)         centrul_creatie@portal-braila.ro

 

Contact details:

Tel / Fax:  +40 239 614 710

E-mail:  centrul_creatie@portal-braila.ro

costel_patrascan@yahoo.co.uk